This century only 20 years old has already pushed the boundaries of never before seen statistics and many firsts.
Some nutjobs with skewed ideology flew commercial planes into large buildings killing 3,500 in the richest economy on earth.
India did a global pilot with 1.3 Billion people when they decided to remove their most popular paper currency in an exercise called demonetization.
Net result - some black market types got hammered. Poor people (which is half of India's population) got hammered. Today net result is that the grey economy continues with new Rupee notes. Duh!
World stock markets reached all time highs. Man made indices to represent the fastest growth companies rang up huge profits as cost of capital plummeted. World banks dropped interest rates to levels not seen ever. Some went to Zero and some Negative. It costs money to put it in a bank not the other way.
More people are alive than ever before approaching 8 billion.
The internet took on a life of its own with the fastest data transfer rates ever achieved.
More petabytes were added in this century alone than any point in history in a cumulative 2,000 years. More people started tapping on pieces of glass aka smartphones than all the globe's woodpeckers ever tapped on wood.
Then came COVID pandemic.
Outside of the largest swings in capital markets the world over, the miniscule virus put the entire world out of order.
America which touted to be the richest country in the world and who built and sold the most expensive fighter jet ever at price tag of just over $0.5 Billion dollars apiece ran out of 75 cent face masks for its doctors when the virus hit.
The planet largely was ordered to shut down and lock up - the largest ever experiment of its kind in peacetime.
Pollution levels have dropped and probably the wildlife around us is confused... but the sun is still shining and earth is still spinning.
So at some point the world now would want to get back to its business of life. How?
America announced a largest ever $2 Trillion relief package for its people... how it will help - time will tell.
How many might die and how will those left behind adapt? The sporting life does not look sporting just now - what with the first ever Olympic Games being postponed.
What else you ask might befall this species?
No idea. But this would be the largest REBOOT of a stopped system EVER.
Some nutjobs with skewed ideology flew commercial planes into large buildings killing 3,500 in the richest economy on earth.
India did a global pilot with 1.3 Billion people when they decided to remove their most popular paper currency in an exercise called demonetization.
Net result - some black market types got hammered. Poor people (which is half of India's population) got hammered. Today net result is that the grey economy continues with new Rupee notes. Duh!
World stock markets reached all time highs. Man made indices to represent the fastest growth companies rang up huge profits as cost of capital plummeted. World banks dropped interest rates to levels not seen ever. Some went to Zero and some Negative. It costs money to put it in a bank not the other way.
More people are alive than ever before approaching 8 billion.
The internet took on a life of its own with the fastest data transfer rates ever achieved.
More petabytes were added in this century alone than any point in history in a cumulative 2,000 years. More people started tapping on pieces of glass aka smartphones than all the globe's woodpeckers ever tapped on wood.
Then came COVID pandemic.
Outside of the largest swings in capital markets the world over, the miniscule virus put the entire world out of order.
America which touted to be the richest country in the world and who built and sold the most expensive fighter jet ever at price tag of just over $0.5 Billion dollars apiece ran out of 75 cent face masks for its doctors when the virus hit.
The planet largely was ordered to shut down and lock up - the largest ever experiment of its kind in peacetime.
Pollution levels have dropped and probably the wildlife around us is confused... but the sun is still shining and earth is still spinning.
So at some point the world now would want to get back to its business of life. How?
America announced a largest ever $2 Trillion relief package for its people... how it will help - time will tell.
How many might die and how will those left behind adapt? The sporting life does not look sporting just now - what with the first ever Olympic Games being postponed.
What else you ask might befall this species?
No idea. But this would be the largest REBOOT of a stopped system EVER.
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